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More Worries About the Military

By Quin Hillyer on 12.7.12 @ 2:55PM

Getting a lot of mileage out of a Heritage conference about which I already have written here, now this is my last installment.

One particularly scary passage:

Heritage has produced a proposed budget/policy design that reaches a balanced budget and that “fully funds defense at 4 percent of GDP” (rather than heading well below 3 percent, as we are in the process of doing). The U.S. has served as the world’s “safety net” - not its policeman, but its ultimate guarantor of geopolitical stability - but “if we take the safety net off the table… that’s not okay…. It would mean that World War III is coming.”

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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

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